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13 Tiess. 369

Bloch Bros. v. Ferchaud

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided May 8, 1916

Louisiana Court of Appeal · decided 1916-05-08

<p>Appeal from the 27th Judicial District 'Court, Parish of St. James, No. 2980. Honorable Charles T. Wortham, Judge.</p>

Decided 1916-05-08

His Honor, EMILE GODCHAUX,

¶1rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as follows:

¶2This is a suit for a balance of account due for advances made by plaintiff to defendant in 1913 for the cultivation and harvesting by the latter of a rice crop during that year. The only contested item of the account is one of $133.87, being a commission of 2 1-2 per cent which, in addition to the conventional interest of 8 per cent, is charged upon the amount of said advances. This item was stricken from the account by the trial Court and plaintiff seeks by this appeal to have it reinstated.

¶3*370The record discloses that a detailed account of these advances was rendered to and received by defendant in October, 1913, and that it was not until the answer was filed in this proceeding, nearly two years later, that defendant challenged its correctness. Moreover, the unoontradicted testimony, corroborated 'by defendants’ letters, establishes that defendants agreed to pay the balance shown thereon to be due and simply requested the indulgence of time within which to do so.

¶4Under such circumstances the account became an “account stated,” the equivalent of an acknowledgment and settlement between the parties.

¶5James vs. Fellows & Co., 20 A., 116.

¶6Blanc vs. Scruggs, 26 A., 208.

¶7Robinson vs. Day, 7 A., 201.

¶8Bloom vs. Kerns, 30 A., 1263.

¶9Sentell vs. Kennedy, 29 A., 679.

¶10Allen vs. Nettles, 39 A., 790.

¶11Flower & King vs. O’Bannon, 43 A., 1043.

¶12Leeds & Co. in Liquidation, 49 A., 501.

¶13Danneman & Charlton vs. Charlton, 113 La., 287.

¶14It is now too late to entertain the charge that any item of the account is usurious. Any complaint on that score should have been urged within the year after the account had attained the dignity of an “account stated.”

¶15Allen vs. Nettles, supra.

¶16Flower & King vs. O’Bannon, supra.

¶17Leeds & Co., in Liquidation, supra.

¶18Danneman & Charlton vs. Charlton, supra.

¶19The judgment is accordingly amended and to that end it is now decreed' that it be increased in principal to the *371sum of $172.40 'and as thus amended it is affirmed at defendants’ costs in both Courts.

Opinion and decree, May 8th, 1916.Rehearing refused, June 26th, 1916.

¶20Amended.

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